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How to fix Printer Poor Printouts, Banding and Fading
Having problems of poor printouts in your printer? It was caused by some inks hardens and block the inks print head holes, that cause the blockage in the flowing on inks. Here how to fix it.
Instructions
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Perform head cleaning process on your printer. See your printer documentation on how to head clean your printer. Canon printer can be head clean in your computer or direct in the printer machine. Epson printers and other brands and models can be head clean using its printer printing preferences. For Epson printers head clean can be access by right click on your printer, select “printing preferences”. Navigate to “maintenance” tab and click “head clean”
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Perform “ink charge”, ink charge is a type of hard head cleaning. Ink charge is available in some software like SSC service utility or other printer resetting software. Note that when you perform inks charge you will be dumping and wasting large of inks, so you must moderate and not always perform the ink charge process.
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If head cleaning and inks charge process did not solve your problem. Try to pump your printer head with an air to remove the printer clog head.
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Pump the printer with a printer head cleaner. Printer head cleaning toolkit can be purchase online or in some stores that selling inks, toners and printer parts and accessories. Toolkit usually includes a bottle of head cleaner solution, a smooth cloth or tissue paper, and a syringe with a small hose. Note only that when you pump the print head with solution the printer warranty will be void. If the printer was still under warranty it is advisable not to do this.
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Bring your printer to the nearest service centre or professional printer technician nearest to you.
